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His last name has been mispronounced in USA for 90 years

Try watching a UK crime show without subtitles.

The fixed scouting li ea proved fatal when the USS England figured out they had discovered a scouting g line and sank six Japanese submarine in about a week. Captain Orito writes extensively about this in his book “I-Boat Captain”

I was with 173d ABN BDE LRRP in RVN 1966-67. We were issued/traded for the SF indigenous ration of desiccated rice and dried anchovies/squid/octopus as a patrol ration. It was edible and one smelled more like a local (gave waste like a local) than a three meat meals a day Yank.

Wife and I attended an astronomy lecture on the effects of space travel on the human body and it is not good. One subject brought up was travel to Mars and it was considered: 1. Radiation would probably be fatal unless shielding techniques could be developed 2. It would be a one way trip 2a...

Yes, very big bangs will soon be heard

You are correct . Took out a co-belligerent that had enough

Any thoughts on the Mound Builders extension and development?

Yale and Stanford then

And yet they lost far more decisively to Japanese air attacks than to German:: Battleship, battle cruiser, cruisers, carrier, destroyers German air sank no capital ships that I can discover

Villamor did far more significant work when he went back to Philippines to do intelligence studies Looked up Villamor on line. He made far more significant work when he went back into Phillipines by submarine as an intelligence agent.

Brother was a section leader ( 2nd LT Commanding 2 guns) of 155 mm towed howitzers in I Corps. The batter of 6 gu s was usually split into two gun sections and might be 200 lm apart

I think one ranging gun sounds likely. It has fired and is waiting to fire another ranging round while rest of battery fire.